Trump Labor Board Sets New Standard for Access to Property (1)

Decision adds to board’s efforts to bolster employer control of property

Companies looking to block workers from protesting on their private property got a boost from the National Labor Relations Board, which overturned Obama-era precedents and set a new test on when property owners can exclude employees of contractors.

Property owners can bar off-duty contractor workers seeking to stage labor protests unless they work “regularly and exclusively” on the property and the owner isn’t able to show they have a “reasonable nontrespassory alternative” for communicating their message, the NLRB said in a 3-1 ruling Aug. 23.

Applying its new test, the board said Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation in San...